ORLANDO WOMAN WINS $1 MILLION IN
BILLION DOLLAR BLOCKBUSTER GAME
TALLAHASSEE The Florida Lottery announced that Cheryl Puckett 54 of Orlando claimed a $1 million prize in the BILLION DOLLAR BLOCKBUSTER ScratchOff game at Florida Lottery headquarters. This marks the 35th winner to claim a $1 million prize in the popular ScratchOff game; 85 $1 million prizes remain.
Puckett chose the onetime lumpsum payment option for her winnings in the amount of $650000.00. The winning ticket was purchased from Cumberland located at 5300 Curryford Road in Orlando.
The $20 ScratchOff game BILLION DOLLAR BLOCKBUSTER offers the highest cash payout of any game in Florida Lottery history. The game launched on February 24 2009 and features more than $1 billion in prizes including 10 top prizes of $10 million. Six of 10 top prizes still remain. To date the game has awarded more than $310 million in prizes. The overall odds of winning are one in 2.98.
The Florida Lottery offers more than 40 ScratchOff games at any given time through instant ticket vending machines (ITVMs) or oncounter displays at more than 13000 retailers statewide. ScratchOff games are an important part of the Lottery¿s portfolio of games making up approximately 53 percent of ticket sales and generating more than $396 million for the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund (EETF) in fiscal year 200910.
Florida voters by a twotoone margin approved a constitutional amendment in 1986 authorizing the state to operate a lottery for the purpose of generating significant additional moneys for education. Today Floridians continue to show their support by purchasing nearly $4 billion in Lottery products per year resulting in contributions of more than $22 billion to the EETF since 1988. For more information regarding the Florida Lottery its games and its contributions to education visit www.flalottery.com.